At Los Alamos they turned to the site itself for a name—Trinitite. Still, where did “Trinity” come from? J. Robert Oppenheimer, the charismatic theoretical physicist who had directed the Los ...

The effort needed a remote location, but Oppenheimer was especially partial to the Ranch School site ... at Los Alamos were put to the test in a world-changing experiment called Trinity, a ...

director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his onetime fiancee ...

Albuquerque has close ties to the birth of the Atomic Age sitting between Los Alamos to the north, where scientists created the first atomic weapons, and the Trinity Site to the south, where they ...

Los Alamos, which is best known for being behind the atomic bomb’s Manhattan Project and Trinity test site in New Mexico, is federally funded and part of the U.S. Department of Energy.